Bersih 3 dibenarkan, tak terkejut ke...

 

Adakan ada terkejut bila kerajaan Najib bersetuju untuk membenarkan bantah duduk Bersih 3? Bagi saya tidak dan harap anda pun begitu jua.

PM Najib dan pengampu2nya mungkin telah banyak belajar daripada Bersih 2. Mereka juga telah mengarahkan editor2 akhbar pro-gomen untuk menangani Bersih 3 dengan cara yang lebih berbeda daripada Bersih 2. Ini bukanlah sesuatu masalah keselamatan seperti yang dilakukan mereka terhadap Bersih 2 dulu.

Bersih 2 pada 9 Julai 2011 dianggap sebagai mengancam keselamatan negara setaraf dengan kejadian di Dataran Tahrir.Itulah sebab mengapa pasukan polis menutup segala pintu masuk ke ibu negara. Polis kata hanya 5,000 orang hadir dan 1,700 daripadanya telah ditahan. Cekap sungguh pasukan polis kita!

Namun demikian,tindakan gomen Najib dalam menangani Bersih 2 memangnya gagal. Tindakan fli-flopnya dengan membenarkan penggunaan sebuah stadium dan membenarkan penasihat2 keselamatan bertindak secara ikut suka hati adalah amat memalukan. Kali ini Najib tidak mahu peristewa Bersih 2 berulang lagi.

Kesan daripada tindakan rakus gomen Najib tersebar hinggalah sejauh England,seminggu selepas Bersih 2 ketika lawatan rasmi Najib ke negara tersebut. Najib merupakan PM Malaysia pertama,diboo,dicaci dan dimaki hamun oleh rakyat Malaysia yang berada di sana.Tanpa diduga,minggu ini PM Britain,David Cameron akan melawat Malaysia.Saya berharap Najib perlu 'cool down' sikit terhadap Bersih 3.

Kali iiini Najib tidak ada lagi penasihat seperti Jalil Hamid,kini editor kanan NST to memperlekeh aktivis2 dan peserta2 Bersih. Ingatkah anda tentang surat yang bocor,bertajuk, "GUIDANCE ON KEY ISSUES No 8/2011".

 

"By most accounts, the Bersih 2.0 protest on July 9 could turn out to be massive and will certainly go beyond issues of fair and free elections. With over 100 political, NGO and right groups could be joining the “March for Democracy”, we expect them to champion a slew of issues ranging from inflation to Teoh Beng Hock and Lynas. The protest, if not countered, could undermine the government, the economy and national security. This note sets out the policy guidance and the do’s and don’ts in managing the issue," he wrote.

Jalil telah rekomen tindakan2 berikut sebagai"the process of mind-conditioning will continue in the run-up to July 9".

Proses itu meliputi memperlekeh organisasi dan pemimpin2 utamanya. Bersih bukanlah badan yang berdaftar dengan ROS atau ROC. Ia bukanlah sebuah badan 'watchdog pilihanraya' tapi merupakan sekumpulan tokoh2 politik dan individu2 yang mempunyai motif politik yanghh tiada kredibiliti.

Jalil juga meminta gomen melabelkan perhimpunan itu sebagai "perhimpunan haram" dan mereka yang mendalangi Bersih adalah pengkhianat yang cuba menentang Perlembagaan dan undang2 bagi mencapai 'political mileage' dan ianya hanyalah merupakan satu 'front' untuk pihak pembangkang.

Ada juga rujukan kepada Anwar Ibrahim yang dituduhnya sebagai menggunakan Bersih 2 bagi elak perhatian daripada masalah2 moral dan undang2nya. dan juga untuk memperingati akan peristewa pembohongan "Sept 16"nya.

Jalil juga berkata proses ini adalah untuk mengwujudkan suasana ketegangan bahawa Bersih ini bertindak untuk kepentingan elemen2 luar negara yang hendak mengkucar kacirkan negara dan Bersih inilah sebersih yang disangkakan,kerana Bersih adalah badan haram yang semata2 mahu menghuru harakan negara.

Anda dah tak nampak muka2 ini hari ini kan? Penasihat2 ini dah berambus dan Najib dah belajar atas kesilapannya.Najib membentuk PSC selepas peristewa Bersih 2 dan PSC telah mengemukakan 22 cadangan, sedangkan 4 cadangan lagi ditinggalkan.

Najib membenarkan Bersih 3 kerana pilihanraya dah dekat. Najib nak tonjolkan dirinya sebagai seorang pemimpin demokratik. Siapa yang boleh membenarkan tentangan, Pak Lah dan Mahathir pun tak bermimpi untuk berbuat demikian.

Najib buat semua ini kerana dia nak menang pilihanraya dan mahu kekal sebagai PM dan Presiden UMNO. Jika itu bukan sebabnya, nasib Bersih 3 akan serupa dengan Bersih 2. Katakanlah ini adalah helah Najib.

Ayuhai, marilah kita BANTAH dan DUDUK pada 28 April 2012 ini bagi menunjukkan bahawa anda mahu Malaysia bebas daripada penipuan dalam pilihanraya. Jangan duduk saja dan melihat Malaysia lingkup. - Pak Man,malaysian insider. - (diterjemah oleh Tumpang Sekole)

Retorik Bersih 2.0 Akan Berulang

 

Bersih 3.0 is allowed to go on, suprise kah...

Are you surprised that the Najib government has agreed to allow the Bersih 3.0 sit-in to go on? I am not. You shouldn't either.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his aides have learnt their lesson from Bersih 2.0. They have also instructed their pro-government newspaper editors in the mainstream media to treat Bersih 3.0 differently from Bersih 2.0. That it is not a security threat that Bersih 2.0 was deemed by the security agencies.

Bersih 2.0 on July 9 was a seen as a security threat at the same level as Tahrir Square. That explains why Kuala Lumpur was locked down with phalanxes of policemen ringing the city. Police said only 5,000 turned up but they held nearly 1,700 people. How's that for efficiency and effectiveness?

Despite all that, the Najib government's handling of Bersih 2.0 was seen as a failure. He flip-flopped on giving them a stadium. He allowed his security advisors to get the upper hand but not this time. Najib cannot afford the fallout that Bersih 2.0 generated back then.

The repercussions even went as far as England where Najib visited a week after Bersih 2.0. The Anglophile prime minister was the first ever Malaysian leader to be boo-ed by Malaysians abroad. In a twist of events, this week British prime minister David Cameron visits Kuala Lumpur. I hope he will reinforce the need for Najib to ease off on Bersih 3.0.

Because he can't have advisers like Jalil Hamid, who is now the NST chief editor, to demonise the Bersih participants and activists.

Do you remember what he said in the leaked letter? Let me refresh you in the note titled "GUIDANCE ON KEY ISSUES No 8/2011".

"By most accounts, the Bersih 2.0 protest on July 9 could turn out to be massive and will certainly go beyond issues of fair and free elections. With over 100 political, NGO and right groups could be joining the “March for Democracy”, we expect them to champion a slew of issues ranging from inflation to Teoh Beng Hock and Lynas. The protest, if not countered, could undermine the government, the economy and national security. This note sets out the policy guidance and the do’s and don’ts in managing the issue," he wrote.

Jalil then recommended the following  as "the process of mind-conditioning will continue in the run-up to July 9".

The process included, among others, to "discredit the organisation and itts key leaders. Bersih is neither registered with ROS nor ROC. It is NOT an election watchdog but a group of politicians and politically inclined individuals who lack credibility."

He also said the government should "label the rally as “perhimpunan haram” or “illegal assembly”, and that the people behind Bersih are trouble shooters and going against the Constitution and the law to gain political mileage" and "that they are just a front for the opposition."
 
There are also references to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim who was allegedly using Bersih 2.0 to shift attention from his "legal and moral woes" and to remind people about his "Sept 16 bluff".

Jalil also said the process was also to "create anxiety that Bersih is working for the interests of foreign elements, who are out to destabilise the country" and "that Bersih is not bersih (clean) after all as it is an illegal group out to create havoc".

You don't see this today, do you? Those advisors are gone and Najib has learnt his lesson. He set up a parliamentary select committee (PSC) after that and they have submitted 22 recommendations with four more left behind.

Najib is allowing Bersih 3.0 because the elections are near. He wants to be seen as a democratic leader.Who can allow dissent that even Pak Lah or Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad wouldn't dream of doing.

Because he needs to win the general elections and remain as prime minister and Umno president. If that wasn't the case, Bersih 3.0 will end up like Bersih 2.0. Call Najib's bluff. 

Sit in on April 28 to show you want a better Malaysia free from electoral fraud. Don't sit in and allow Malaysia to rot.-Pak Man, malaysian insider

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cheers.